Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 4, 2010

If we are going to nurture leaders within organization we must supply them access to mentors, role models, challenges, feedback and the ability to learn from mistakes and successes.

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Venture Capitalist Leadership Workshop Mentor 157

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. They need to be able to collect, sort, analyze data, and edit all communication and collaborative streams of information that could potentially influence their business.”

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 78

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The way something is sold influences the way it is made, and the book industry has always been about bookstores,” said business book writer Seth Godin. On the other hand, they have opened up a lot of opportunities," said David Cowan, a venture capitalist at Bessemer Venture Partners in Menlo Park, CA. Borders Group Inc.,

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Marketing Godin Venture Capitalist Chief Operating Officer 102

CO2

JULY 12, 2011

He didn’t let the failures consume him, and he’s now one of the most successful Venture Capitalists in Silicon Valley. My dear friend Arjun Gupta had two start-ups fail before he launched Telesoft Partners. Thomas Edison was known to say, “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results.

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Venture Capitalist Learning-by-Doing Books Skills 90

Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. They need to be able to collect, sort, analyze data, and edit all communication and collaborative streams of information that could potentially influence their business.”

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 61

Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Aligning our reading (all information intake) with our stated values and goals is a topic I’d love to see put into some type of hour-long workshop (hint, hint). Thanks for bringing this topic up, it’s important!

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. They need to be able to collect, sort, analyze data, and edit all communication and collaborative streams of information that could potentially influence their business.”

Venture Capitalist 56

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

The prevailing hope among academics, policy makers, and practitioners alike has been that this gap will narrow as more women become venture capitalists. has seen an increase in the number of female venture capitalists (from 3% of all VCs in 2014 to an estimated 7% today), but the funding gap has only widened.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Venture Funding Quality 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

When venture capitalists (VCs) evaluate investment proposals, the language they use to describe the entrepreneurs who write them plays an important but often hidden role in shaping who is awarded funding and why. All told, we observed closed-room, face-to-face discussions leading final funding decisions for 125 venture applications.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance Influence 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 20, 2024

“A small number of astute venture capitalists have suspected this for some time, but now we have the data to demonstrate this is the case.” . “We find that personality traits don’t simply matter for start-ups — they are critical to elevating the chances of success,” the researchers explain.

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Succession Venture Capitalist Directory Entrepreneur 109

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Another survey of venture capitalists found that 74% had companies that experienced “significant impacts” from patent demands. Catherine Tucker of MIT analyzed venture capital investing relative to patent lawsuits in different industries and different regions of the country.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Comparison Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. It''s much-needed advice.

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Venture Capitalist Exit Strategy NGO Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

When women do seek funding, venture capitalists do not respond positively when their business concepts fall outside of traditionally “feminine” areas such as fashion or children’s products. Others counter that having fewer women founders as role models contributes to fewer women seeking start-up funding.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Sample Rate of Return 8

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s tempting to think that venture capitalists are taking punts on particular technologies in the hope that the few investments that reach the big time adequately compensate for the many that wither on the vine. The post Common Ownership Can Improve Innovation Efficiency first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Efficiency Innovation Venture Capitalist Hedge 124

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. Venture capitalists are often “pattern matching”, thus actively looking for someone who looks like the successful founders of Google, FaceBook, Amazon, or Apple. That VC might not even take the meeting. But bear with me.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Entrepreneur Innovation 10

Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

There is tolerance of the simple fact that we don’t have control over every variable in the game, so at times – through either forces outside our influence or simply not having run our best play – the results are not as we wish. Allowing sloppiness and imprecision. About the Author.

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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Thus, designing one is an engineering task. The term ecosystem actually refers to a self-organizing and self-regulating interaction of independent organisms; it is not a checklist of the local flora and fauna. And in nature, biological ecosystems are usually not designed, they evolve naturally.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

For years, those of us who study business innovation have been thrilled by the results and influence of Muhammad Yunus , Grameen Bank, and the idea that one powerful way to fight poverty is to make small loans to villagers (mainly women) who have tons of energy but no access to capital. has made the loans much less effective.".

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

They know this does not threaten their power, but, rather, increases their influence. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms. About the Author.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

They know this does not threaten their power, but, rather, increases their influence. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms. About the Author.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

In other words, how founders built their companies on the inside, from the start, influenced their companies’ success on the outside, for a long time. Some of the most successful venture capitalists, like Andreesen Horowitz have been quite vocal about their strong preference for investing in businesses where the founder is the CEO.

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Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

How could venture capitalists assess that risk to decide whether to invest? In both cases, these companies were facing incumbent industries that were adept at exerting their influence. So much of the risks and challenges facing these companies involved whether their business models were legal.

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CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The budding philanthropic communities in Africa and Latin America are growing in strength and influence — and they are poised to develop further in coming years. Corporate social responsibility Global business Nonprofit'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Fortunately, we can make decisions that help minimize the influence of bad luck on our lives. ” But our goal isn’t simply to minimize the influence of luck; it’s to minimize the chance that bad luck will lead to an unacceptable circumstances, be that starving, divorce, failing to achieve the autonomy you crave, etc.

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Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The IT departments of some nearby companies are also influenced by the innovation in Silicon Valley, and by how technologists there network and manage. CIOs network with Valley technology leaders and venture capitalists in search of creative solutions to traditional IT problems. Learning from Innovation in Silicon Valley.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

It’s the only way to create the trusted connections you need to lead with real influence. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms. About the Author.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

When we''re trying to implement a new idea, explore a dream, or disrupt ourselves , we often have to bridge a language gap: for example, the seemingly impenetrable dialect of technology, or the specialized lingo associated with a particular profession, jargon of venture capitalists, or even the patois of a different team within your firm.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Engineering Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Vance has received huge attention for his book Hillbilly Elegy , chronicling his time as a venture capitalist who grew up in rural Ohio, and the difficulties his background presented. Everything from the way we dress, to the food we eat, to the way we raise families, to what we do on the weekends is influenced by class.

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Class Diversity Company Sports 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Shervin Pishevar, a venture capitalist and an investor in Couchsurfing, Getaround, Uber and other startups in this space, believes these services will have a major impact on the economics of cities; “This is a movement as important as when the web browser came out.”. Use state of the art approaches to reaching out to government.

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Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. They also have more influence and authority over company resources.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

In the years ahead, Alphabet could dramatically influence business models in many industries. But it is not another Silicon Valley venture capital firm seeking extraordinary returns from small number of bets with short time horizons. They are disciplined (ruthless) in jettisoning those that may not be on track to scale and win.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

And of course, premiere venture capitalists talk with pride about "pattern recognizing" for success, signaling that they typically fund a 23-year old from Stanford over say, women, people of color, or those with a more diverse life experience. What I see is a shift in the nature of power and influence.

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Power Venture Capitalist Business Model McKinsey 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This involves thinking like a venture capitalist more than a builder, by articulating a solid growth thesis. In order to refound their organizations, CEOs must be strong and bold and use their influence to reset the permissions and boundaries of their teams to work and think differently.

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CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

This likely influenced Google to reportedly offer Groupon $6 billion for the company ( which was turned down ) and the company to raise a record $950 million from investors. When they did, a surprising result emerged: while social influence can give a product an early advantage, that edge is typically not sustainable.

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First-mover Advantage Venture Capitalist Dunning Early Adopters 15